Carboxylic acid amide chlorides

The chemistry of the carbonyl group is probably the single most important aspect of organic chemical reactivity Classes of compounds that contain the carbonyl group include many derived from carboxylic acids (acyl chlorides acid anhydrides esters and amides) as well as the two related classes discussed m this chapter aldehydes and ketones... 

The negatively charged oxygen substituent is a powerful electron donor to the carbonyl group Resonance m carboxylate anions is more effective than resonance m carboxylic acids acyl chlorides anhydrides thioesters esters and amides... 

Anhydrides are reduced with relative ease. McAlees and McCrindle 20) established the following increasing order of difficulty for various carbonyls acid chlorides > aldehydes, ketones > anhydrides > esters > carboxylic acids > amides. Reduction may proceed by 1,2-addilion of hydrogen or by cleavage of an oxygen-carbonyl bond. If 1,2-addition to the carbonyl occurs, as in the presence of strong protic acids over palladium, 1,1-diesters are formed by acylation 26). 

Many procedures for the formation of carboxylic acid amides are known in the literature. The most widely practiced method employs carboxylic acid chlorides as the electrophiles which react with the amine in the presence of an acid scavenger. Despite its wide scope, this protocol suffers from several drawbacks. Most notable are the limited stability of many acid chlorides and the need for hazardous reagents for their preparation (thionyl chloride, oxalyl chloride, phosgene etc.) which release corrosive and volatile by-products. Moreover, almost any other functional group in either reaction partner needs to be protected to ensure chemoselective amide formation.2 The procedure outlined above presents a convenient and catalytic alternative to this standard protocol. 

Many aldehydes and ketones have been converted to g m-difluoro compounds with sulfur tetrafluoride (SF4), " including quinones, which give 1,1,4,4-tetra-fluorocyclohexadiene derivatives. With ketones, yields can be raised and the reaction temperature lowered, by the addition of anhydrous HF. Carboxylic acids, acyl chlorides, and amides react with SF4 to give 1,1,1-trifluorides. In these cases the first product is the acyl fluoride, which then undergoes the ge i-difluorination reaction ... 

The tertiary amines 303 and the acid chlorides 304 (X = Cl) initially formed acylammonium salts 305, which underwent a von Braun type degradation by an attack of the nucleophilic chloride ion at the allyl system to give allyl chlorides 306/307 and carboxylic acid amide functions. 

This latter thought has an important consequence if compounds with C=0 double bonds are sorted in decreasing order of resonance stabilization of their C=0 group they are at the same time sorted according to their increasing propensity to enolization. So as the resonance stabilization of the C=0 double bond decreases from 22 kcal/mol to somewhere near zero in the order carboxylic acid amide > carboxylic acid ester/carboxylic acid > ketone > aldehyde > carboxylic acid chloride/-bromide, the enol content increases in this same order (Figure 12.2). These circumstances immediately explain why no enol reactions whatsoever are known of carboxylic acid amides, virtually none of normal carboxylic acid esters/carboxylic acids, but are commonly encountered with ketones, aldehydes and carboxylic acid halides. 

Carboxylic Acids, Esters, Chlorides, Anhydrides, Amides, and Nitriles The C=0... 

The 36C1 exchanges between gaseous H 36C1 and adducts of carboxylic acid amides with phosphoryl chloride have also been studied291. 

CARBONYL ADDITIONS, CERIUM(III) CHLORIDE-PROMOTED, 76, 237 Carbonyl compounds, reactions with organolithiums or Grignard reagents, 76, 228 Carboxylic acid amides, 77, 27 Cells, storage of, 76, 80 Centrifugation, 76, 78... 

Final purification by use of metal complexes was also applied in the syntheses of the ligands XS4—H4. These ligands exclusively contain thiolate donors and were prepared by Hahn et al. (23) using 2,3-dimercaptobenzoic acid as starting material (Scheme 8). Isopropyl or benzyl protection of the thiol functions, conversion into the acyl chlorides, reaction with a,oo-diamines, and deprotection of the sulfur atoms enabled the connection of two 1,2-benzene-dithiol units via carboxylic acid amide bonds. 

Carboxylic acid esters Carboxylic acid anhydride (Fig. 4.1-15C) two bands at 1820 and 1760 cm, respec-Carboxylic acid chloride Carboxylic acid amide... 

Carboxylic Acids, Ester, Chlorides Anhydrides, Amides and Nitriles ... 

A still unresolved problem is the structure of the often used adducts from phosphorus trihalides and carboxylic acid amides, which might be described by the formulae (8) or (9). With the aid of in situ generated adducts of acid amides and PX3 amidines, isonitriles, quinazolinones, alkyl chlorides, aminomethylenediphosphonic acids, carbamoyl halides, triformylaminomethane, 1,3,4-oxadia-zoles, sulfides (from sulfoxides), nitriles (from primary nitro compounds)" and bromoqui-nolines (from methoxyquinolines)" have been prepared. 

Phosgene and tertiary carboxylic acid amides form very labile adducts (17 equation 6 not yet isolated or used for preparative purposes as such), which decompose with loss of CO2 very rapidly to give amide chlorides (see Section 2.7.2.2.1.i). Decomposition with evolution of CO2 is a common fate of primary adducts of carbonic acid chloride derivatives. Primary adducts from DMF and chloroformic acid esters (18), for example, decompose immediately to give alkoxymethyleneiminium chlorides, which react to give alkyl chlorides and DMF (equation 7). Adducts (19) from secondary and tertiary carboxamides... 

Wallach was the first (1874) to report on the transformation of carboxylic acid amides to amide chlorides by treatment with PCls " various types of amides were converted by this reagent to chloromethyleneiminium chlorides (30 equation 5j(jg reactions can include the a-chlorination of... 

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